One day after John Kerry declared that the US is “not at war…that is the wrong term” with Islamic State, the White House and the Pentagon announced, “We are at war with Islamic State.” It is reassuring to see that the power with the greatest ability to defend the westernRead More

Witness Prof. John J. Mearsheimer of Chicago University and specifically his Foreign Affairs article bearing the self-explanatory title Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault. Prof. Mearsheimer’s stock-in-trade is a foreign policy based on what he calls ‘neorealism’, and at first I thought it had something to do withRead More

The West doesn’t do foreign policy. Instead, Obama makes slick speeches, Cameron performs PR stunts, the EU issues memoranda of intent then does nothing, while the best that Theresa May can come up with is “Asbos for extremists” – making murderous terrorists go stand in the naughty corner for halfRead More

Runnymede Address 15th June 2014 for The Freedom Association The image at the centre of the struggle for freedom 799 years ago was Magna Carta. It was a benign image. The image at the centre of the struggle for freedom today is the European Union. It is a satanic image. Its champions bribeRead More

Jeremy Warner asks this good question in today’s Telegraph. He can’t find a good answer because, as he correctly observes, all EU economies except Germany’s and ours are stagnating, and those of such key EU members as Italy and the Netherlands are actually shrinking. The assumption is that the EU isRead More

Nigel Farage is in trouble yet again, and one would think he ought to have learned by now. Mind you, Nigel would get in trouble with the media of any political hue even if he said that the sky is usually blue, except at night when it’s black, or onRead More

Have you recovered from the initial shock? Well then, you must be eternally grateful to the Office for National Statistics for breaking the news. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the ONS has vindicated Ernest Hemingway who reported this dialogue. Scott Fitzgerald: The rich are different from you and me. Hemingway: Yes, theyRead More

The Chancellor has announced plans to slit your freedom with Occam’s razor. Before philosophers among you accuse me of ignorance, I’m using the term in its colloquial sense, meaning that a simple solution is usually best. Dave and George clearly favour simplicity when it comes to reducing our suicidal budgetRead More

Another day, another interview with Israel National Radio, another penetrating question that goes right to the core of the matter: “How does Russia’s aggression against the Ukraine affect the world in general and America’s allies in particular?” Since the interview kicked off at an ungodly hour of 5.30 am, myRead More

Normally I vary my topics from one day to the next, but the events in the Ukraine are so momentous that it would be frivolous to write about anything else. By and large, the press is treating the Ukraine as a proxy in a confrontation between Russia and the EU.Read More